Damn speed humps!

[Lurks]

I have to travel up to 4 times a day over the speed humps outside Stanley high school, they’re not that high, just a nuisance really, but the other day I heard a really loud bang as I went over one.

At first I though I’d been hit by a golf ball from the golf course that runs alongside, it’s happened before, but no, I’d broken a spring on my front offside suspension.

I’m wondering whether they are responsible for more damage to vehicles, my garage told me they have seen a marked increase in broken springs in the last few years and it’s increasing.

Mine is the 3rd Mondeo in the last 3 months, Vauxhalls seem to be the worst effected though, so either there is an inherent fault in the spring manufacturing or these damned humps are responsible.

I do wish the council would stop humping!

[Fizzywiggy]

Oh that's a real damn nuisance.    I think you should definitely make your feelings and grievance known to them.

[Lurks]

There's not a lot you can do about them fizzy, my late friend lived in high park where they have ridiculously high humps, one right outside his house, apart from them damaging the suspension on his car the constant bouncing over them by vehicles had actually damaged his house, where cracks had appeared in his outside wall.

He contacted the council and complained, they weren't interested, they just said they were necessary for traffic calming and would stay and the damage was not down to the speed humps, although the damage had only appeared since they were installed.

[Fizzywiggy]

That's bloody awful.    They bank on the fact that people won't have the money or the inclination to take them to court over it.

[Hanner Cymraeg]

I definitely agree with your garage Lurks - we sell loads of coil springs (& other suspension parts) these days & I well remember it being quite unusual to replace a spring when I was a mechanic, which I stopped doing around the time that speed bumps were becoming a real menace

[Bazza]

A humping pest

[NigelWaring]

The emergency services here find them a great problem, in the case of spinal or similar injuries they call the helicopter in because that the best way to avoid more injury to the patient.  The main problem now is that the helicopter service, which was run by a charitable trust, was put out to tender and was awarded to a private company with less resources and no volunteer medics and suchlike.